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The M-CaReM-AI Method: Defining Work for AI / Unit 2   MCM 029 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Final Cause

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The idea

Final cause answers why: the purpose or goal a thing exists to serve.

In practice

In the method's terms, a system's final cause is safer care, less fraud, better access, faster processing or lower cost.

Where people slip

Strategy decks live here, and purpose aligns people well, but a beautiful purpose statement does not settle what any record contains.

Your place on the trail

Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.

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